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Pittodrie Stadium, home to Scotland's Aberdeen Football Club, sits on the edge of the North Sea. During the winter - the middle of the Scottish Premier League season - a bitter wind whips up off the water, giving a biting edge to the snow and rain that often accompany Aberdeen's matches. The climate's tough on away fans, but it's even harder on the boggy pitch: last season, Aberdeen spent about €45,000 to maintain its field - a big sum for a declining club in a peripheral league. Little wonder, then, that when UEFA, European football's governing...
TOMMY OUT OF TUNE? During his years as head of Sony Music, Tommy Mottola had some relationships sour in very public ways. After launching the career of Mariah Carey, he married her; after a bitter divorce, she left the label. And when Michael Jackson decided that the label hadn't publicized his album enough, he drove a bus around Manhattan holding a poster of Mottola with horns. Now Mottola is facing another breakup. He announced last week that he wanted to start his own label and was leaving Sony, where since 1989 he has guided singers like Jennifer Lopez. Whether...
Dunkin' Donuts: $5.99. The original blend was tops with two of our tasters, who thought it was the smoothest brew, but most found it "a little bitter" and thought the taste was "blah and funky." --L.McL...
MAMMOGRAPHY For two years, a bitter argument has raged over medical advice that most women thought was unimpeachable: routine mammograms save lives. The contrarians insist that the statistics don't bear this out. They also argue that mammograms miss 10% to 15% of breast cancers and that the vast majority of the abnormalities mammograms do spot are benign, which results in millions of unnecessary biopsies and countless anxious women. In a sharp repudiation of the critics, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson declared that while mammograms are not perfect, they are "an important and effective tool that helps...
...valid argument from hate. We don’t need outspoken proponents of “tolerance” to do it for us. What we do need is dissent from students like Pappin, who challenge us all to examine the limits of our inclusiveness and to question the bitter hypocrisy of whom we choose to tolerate and whom we choose to silence...